Ok I just got back from 2 hour road trip to get the cabinet that has been advertized on Craigslist for my Mother's 1952 Pfaff 130. The machine fits perfectly in the cabinet so Candace and a few of you were right - that cabinet was made for the Pfaff! The problem is the cabinet is in great shape, but the hinges/parts that hold the machine in the cabinet are missing. So I can't use the cabinet until I find the parts to hold the machine - so it doesn't fall through! Anyone know where, - besides watching E-bay - I can find parts for the Pfaff cabinet. I need the hinges, screws, anchoring system so the machine can be set into the cabinet and actually closed up when not in use!

DH was fixing the car this afternoon so I dug out my new machines. I have one no count Stylist - it was $1 besides it had a cabinet.... Then I found 2 Singer 15s with potted motors, a Spartan, a pair of 66s and and Alden - I didn't have time to give it a good look there - I just saw that it was a little 3/4 machine. Today I looked it over - it is like a Singer 99 only smaller. It runs sweet. I'm sure it had something wrong with it other than the motor wires are BARE - very Bare - but I didn't spend much time on it. I got the Spartan on a hand crank and had a good time playing with it. The other machine was a Japanese that does zig zag. It has all the big dials and chrome. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned - this one was pretty bad. It took a lot of work, but I got it to move, then I got it to zig and zag. I haven't got the stitch length or reverse moving. I think there may be more stitches than zig zag - either still frozen or I didn't figure out the combination or hold my mouth right so I need to dig up a manual. I got a few tables for a buck each. Inside one was a Singer Stylist - it is frozen up pretty bad but it does have drop feet appears to be mostly metal. One table came with a bench and the cubby hole on one side was full of magnets and curtain rings and a huge pair of scissors. I picked up some Evap-o-rust - good stuff. I had my camera along and totally forgot to shoot the machines. I guess I like to tackle the worst ones first - or the ones I'll learn the most from.

Can't wait to see Pic's when you are finished. You should take pic's before and after. Wish I was close I would help, love to mess with old machines, Joy

Can't wait to see Pic's when you are finished. You should take pic's before and after. Wish I was close I would help, love to mess with old machines, Joy

Best thing is to get a free one you don't care about and tinker with it. See if you can take the tension off and put it back on right. Take apart the bobbin area etc. Get some manuals - I've posted a ton of info - you can go in my profile and look at posts I started to find lots of info.

I left the camera in the car when we were hauling cabinets around. I should have gotten before and after pics. Totally slipped my mind once I got in there and started playing. That Japanese machine is pretty fascinating - I wish I knew more about them. The Alden is made in Japan - I like it.

NEVER let a sewing machine know you are in a hurry.

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

I've been away busy with Christmas preparations. Found out DH tried to win a hand crank for me on Bay (he actually bid on a few
couple Frister and Rossman, a Jones and a Singer with Roses )but at the last minute the same bidder bid them up high. It was a nice though. I told him someday my machine with floral decals would be there - at the right price.

Jan, you do realize that the 503a does not stitch without cams? You are not suppose to even straight stitch without the number '0' cam in the machine. The 503a has no built in stitches like the 500 does.

Nancy

Yes Nancy, I do know that and the ziz zag cam is in it! I remembered reading about on this site!
Thanks for the warning!
Jan on 446

I've been away busy with Christmas preparations. Found out DH tried to win a hand crank for me on Bay (he actually bid on a few
couple Frister and Rossman, a Jones and a Singer with Roses )but at the last minute the same bidder bid them up high. It was a nice though. I told him someday my machine with floral decals would be there - at the right price.

Betty, I wondered where you were.

NEVER let a sewing machine know you are in a hurry.

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

You know Monica, you are just making us all want a Standard sewing machine with all the attachments! Thank you for the photos - pretty cool what some of these old gals can do! You need to demonstrate all your new finds at the next TOGA! That would be a blast!

What are those hinge holes shaped like - very nice cabinet - i would drive for that one too...

Well, DH says he can make the Singer hinge pins work so I ordered some off of e-bay! He will have to do some welding, but I am very excited he will figure it out so my Mother's beloved Pfaff 130 can have a permanent home in a very cute little cabinet. Mom carried that machine from table to table - always as a portable - she never had a proper cabinet for it. Right now there is a Pfaff 130 in the same cabinet on e-bay for sale for 499 or something like that? I feel very lucky to have found that cabinet! I will post pictures when we get "Joy" all settled in her new home!

Here is the little Santa wall hanging I had to do on my Two Spools Treadle to get the grid lines straight! It is made using that fusible 1" grid, which I had never done before. I am not sure I want to do it again either - I'd rather do bargello than that grid, but once I figured out how to do it, it actually went very fast! I did all the grid lines on the Two Spools then did a "flip and sew" putting the back and binding on and turning it right side out with the 15-88 treadle. No electricity was used on this little Santa!